Race riots : comedy and ethnicity in modern British fiction /
Ross, Michael L.
Montreal ; London : McGill-Queen's University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-302) and index.
Caliban and his progeny -- Inferiority complexions: the London charivari -- White mischief: Evelyn Waugh's African charivari -- Joyce Cary's tragic African clown -- Forster's funny bridge party: nation and humour in A passage to India -- Roman Catholic carnival: Muriel Spark's passage to Jerusalem -- The far and the near: Pym and Taylor -- Samuel Selvon and the carnival of reverse colonization -- Rerouting the comic: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- "A funny kind of Englishman": Hanif Kureishi's carnival of ethnicities -- "Some subtleties of the isle": Matthew Kneale's anti-Tempest -- The empire laughs last.
Racism in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Race in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Comic, The, in literature.
Laughter in literature.
English fiction